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The Italian thinker Julius Evola’s Revolt Against the Modern World (RMW) was published between the wars, in 1934. What was then the Great War, and obviously was not yet known as World War I, had been the most destructive ever and was supposed to be the end of all war. But another was inevitable as Evola was writing RMW, and the book’s tensions reflect its place in history. (more…)
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895.
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895.
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Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race.
“Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such a Problem?” by Eumaios, apart from its own considerable merits, was particularly interesting for me — and I suppose some of my Constant Readers — due to his reduplication of a number of the most characteristic formulations of the midcentury Barbadian mystic Neville. [1] (more…)